Prelude to War
This concept, applied in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowed territories to decide the issue of slavery for themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
The author of the influential anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Lincoln's main message in his inaugural address regarding the Union
What was his message about preserving the Union (or that he would not interfere with slavery where it existed, but would not allow its expansion)?
the states that made up the Confederacy. & The Border
What is (any of the following): South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Border: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri, and later West Virginia
This organization was created to aid formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This senator sponsored the bill that led to the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who is Stephen Douglas
This famous Supreme Court case involving an enslaved man seeking his freedom was decided in 1857.
What is the Dred Scott case?
What the Fugitive Slave Act required citizens to do
What is to assist in the capture and return of escaped enslaved people?
The primary reason the South ran out of food during the Civil War.
What is the Union blockade, destruction of farmland, and diversion of labor to the war effort? Anaconda Plan
The President who was impeached from office during Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The violent clashes in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, leading to a mini civil war.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The point of view from which Uncle Tom's Cabin is written
What is from the point of view of enslaved people (or those suffering under slavery)
The main reason Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was to weaken the Confederacy, gain moral high ground, and allow African Americans to fight for the Union?
The battle considered a major turning point of the Civil War because it ended the Confederacy's invasion of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The main reason Andrew Johnson was impeached from office.
What is dismissing his Secretary of War without Senate approval)? Or following the right protocals
The leader of the raid on Harpers Ferry, had this goalin mind
Who is John Brown?
The location where the Dred Scott case was decided
What is the Supreme Court (or Washington D.C.)?
One of the key characteristics of President Buchanan's failures.
What is his tendency to be indecisive or not take strong action in response to national crises (or not confront secession)?
This describes what Union Generals had to do during Reconstruction
What was to oversee military districts and enforce federal law in the South?
The "Reconstruction (Slavery)" Amendments, specifying what each one did.
What are the 13th Amendment (abolished slavery), 14th Amendment (granted citizenship and equal protection), and 15th Amendment (granted voting rights to African American men)?
The main purpose of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
What was to seize the federal arsenal to arm enslaved people for a revolt?
The two main parts of the verdict in the Dred Scott case and their significant impact.
What is the verdict stated that African Americans, enslaved or free, were not citizens and had no right to sue, and that Congress could not ban slavery in territories (effectively nullifying the Missouri Compromise)
How the Fugitive Slave Act worked, according to Lincoln
What is it allowed slaveholders to claim any Black person, free or enslaved, as property and force them back into bondage without due process?
What the 13th Amendment to the Constitution achieved
What is it abolished slavery throughout the United States?
he restrictive laws put in place by Southern states after the Union army left during Reconstruction, aimed at hurting African Americans.
What are Jim Crow laws